It’s also like 99% Shorts nowadays. Just keep coking up that media-induced Attention Deficit Disorder. People’s attention spans are not quite short enough yet. Like when you start a video and IMMEDIATELY a banner comes up and covers half the screen and says HEY CLICK HERE TO WATCH THIS OTHER VIDEO! Click Click click clickclickclickclickclickclickclickclick have some caffeine too.

Good thing I never bother with YouTube’s feed. I use a downloader to grab subscribed new videos and that’s that. They dug their own graves.

It’s kinda like root-ish privileges. It facilitates doing things that you’re not technically prohibited from accessing, but there simply is no interface for. It uses administrative console commands (administrative in the management sense, not like administrator=root sense) to execute changes that don’t have any pathway built-in for the end-user.

Personally, nearly all my devices are rooted, but I did use Shizuku for some accessories on a few devices. It’s a bit of ado to setup; not difficult just a handful of steps. Worth it if you really need or want to do something the GUI won’t provide and you’ll likely find more uses down the line.

Literally all the tactics used back in the day by Microsoft. It landed them with billions in antitrust fines and Google for some reason decided to do all the exact same things - literally.

I dunno. So far I have always found what I needed, assuming it existed. Sometimes there just isn’t a match because either it’s not a setting, or it doesn’t contain the exact text you entered. I’d imagine people’s experiences differ, but I’ve been lucky thus far, on many devices.

Search settings? I sometimes can’t remember where something is. I use the search box in settings.

I’m getting Flatland vibes.

So you think Nintendo is fine with a device being sold that has tons of their games bundled without them getting a dime of it? Very odd, but maybe because it’s all “East” as you were saying it, maybe they let one-another do this kinda shit. I have no idea but it’s surprising. Especially if these devices get into the American consumer base. Shrug

Really! How has Amazon not sued them?

I’m using the stock Motorola ROM. I am rooted, and yes I’ve tried installing with root privs. In fact I’ve tried using several installers, including MiX, but also SAI and two others.

I’m installing from saved APK files. I was able to use the same APK and install on a device with Android 6, as well as another with Android 10. I’m really not sure how to narrow down exactly what’s going wrong, but I know that prior to my factory reset, they all installed without any problem. Then again, I had a ton of add-ons and hacks installed. Some that I have not yet reinstalled, such as Gravity Box, and a handful of other LSposed modules and Magisk modules.

Not speaking from authority, but I’d actually think the EU would prohibit it. With all their flaws etc. like everywhere, the EU at least has definitely shown some balls on more than a few occasions in the recent past. They’ve refused to capitulate on a number of issues with major companies - the first one that comes to mind is the e-waste reduction policy that led to Apple starting to use the USB-C standard. If Apple had their way, they’d continue using proprietary cables until the end of time, all to make more money off something that offers no advantage and only adds more poison to the earth and takes more money from the customer. Standing up to them demonstrated that the EU at least has the stones to do that, and isn’t entirely owned by the rich corps yet. In the U.S.A. what happens is that companies like Apple tell the government to jump and they ask “how high?”

But then why put the name on it if it’s got tons of unlicensed copyrighted games? Nintendo is likely to immediately start lawsuits, so why would Lenovo want to attach their name to this?

Chromebooks are very successful in the kinds of market where a facility needs to buy them by the thousands for staff/faculty. Schools, for example. They use all the Google platform apps Docs, workplace Gmail sheets etc. all integrated, kept on the cloud so that a device that falls in a river has not lost a shred of data. They’re able to be locked down with admin policies and bottom line is the cost per unit is very low. And you get the great feeling of the people who are in charge of all this being entirely clueless that every fucking byte of data is being harvested and analyzed, aggregated, and monetized.

Why even bother when you’re just giving Google money for reselling hardware they didn’t manufacture. Just buy a decent brand basic spec system. Personally I’ve always stuck with ASUS for my new stuff, and for older hardware I’ve been extremely happy with Toshiba laptops. Get a Toshiba Tecra from ten years ago and put Linux on it; it will outperform one of these new Google units.

Better yet, get a decent spec used Android tablet, one that supports bootloader unlock and for which there are ROMs. Install TWRP, install Lineage or crDroid, RR or Bliss - or any of about a dozen amazing brews that give the device orders of magnitude better performance than with stock OS. Then stick a keyboard and mouse to it and you’re golden.

No everything should be working it’s just not. Eventually I’m sure I’ll figure it out.

Not installing from Play store! Yes rooted, yes, unlocked bootloader and TWRP. And it was this way before, too, when it worked fine. I really don’t think Play store or services are involved at all. I even disabled them. No change.

I’m gonna give it a try tomorrow actually. Will fup if anything develops. Thanks for the reminder. Hmmm maybe this would also be a good opportunity to setup and test ADB over network.

I’m not installing from Play, I’m just using an apk file via package installer.

The iOS App Store is possibly worse even. A complete cesspool of bottom-feeders, garbage, and anything that’s free gets buried because they only want the money-makers to be seen.

As I said everything is the same. I just reset using the Android reset. I tried using an advanced installer app and it claimed it was a Split apk - which it is not. That can happen if it doesn’t recognize the problem, it just throws up whatever is first in line.

Very weird shit. Its actually more than one app having this problem. I’ll figure it out eventually.